Mostly About Organized Crime

09/09/2016

One-time Patriarca capo Robert DeLuca is fingering his old boss Francis Salemme for the 1993 murder of Steven DiSarro who managed storied Boston music venue The Channel in which Salemme supposedly had a hidden interest as reported by The Boston Globe: "DeLuca told investigators that he and his brother helped Salemme dispose of DiSarro's body in Providence after Salemme's late son and an associate, Paul Weadick, strangled him."

This isn't the first time that DeLuca has assisted Team America. In 2011 several Patriarca mobsters, including former boss Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, were indicted for shaking down jiggle joints in Providence, RI, and DeLuca played a starring role in the underlying investigation.

In 1989 the FBI secretly recorded the ceremony at which DeLuca was inducted into the life.

In recent years Patriarca capo Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent Sr. was running around Providence looking for a hitman to whack DeLuca after apparently learning DeLuca was falsely telling others the Saint was a government informant. In 2010 the Saint got seven years for his plotting, and as it turns out DeLuca was the rat. Ironic, eh?

06/28/2016

Earlier this year the FBI unearthed the remains of Steven A. DiSarro, the manager of storied music venue The Channel in Boston, MA who was whacked in a 1993 mob hit, and now prosecutors have charged one-time Patriarca capo Robert DeLuca with "allegedly lying to federal investigators about the murders of DiSarro and other unnamed victims" as reported by Shelley Murphy for The Boston Globe: "DeLuca allegedly misled investigators after he was arrested in February 2011 and had 'agreed to cooperate with federal law enforcement authorities in an effort to obtain a lighter sentence,' according to the indictment."

10/29/2015

Twenty-six years ago on October 29, 1989 sneaky G-men from the storied FBI surreptitiously recorded a Mafia induction ceremony presided over by New England boss Raymond "Junior" Patriarca as reported by Shelley Murphy for The Boston Globe: "the tapes, marking the first and only Mafia induction ceremony recorded by law enforcement, also provided undisputed proof of the existence of the Mafia, also known as La Cosa Nostra, Italian for 'this Thing of Ours.'" The four boys inducted on that fateful day were Vincent Federico, Carmen Tortora, Robert "Bobby" DeLuca and Richard Floramo who each "pricked their trigger fingers, burned holy cards and vowed to kill for the Mafia."

10/30/2014

Twenty-five years ago on October 29, 1989 sneaky G-men from the storied FBI surreptitiously recorded a Mafia induction ceremony presided over by New England boss Raymond "Junior" Patriarca as reported by Shelley Murphy for The Boston Globe: "The tapes, marking the first and only Mafia induction ceremony recorded by law enforcement, also provided undisputed proof of the existence of La Cosa Nostra, Italian for 'this Thing of Ours.'" The four boys inducted on that fateful day were Vincent Federico, Carmen Tortora, Robert "Bobby" DeLuca and Richard Floramo who each "pricked their trigger fingers, burned Holy cards, and pledged their loyalty and their lives to the Mafia."

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